I have more to say because there’s more information about evolution and diet, and I think it might interest you.

A recent scientific review has argued in favor of the plant-based diet, citing the massive amounts of whole plant foods that humans ate throughout their evolution.

Come time travel with me for a moment…

It’s around 200,000 BCE. Humans are living on foraged wild greens and the occasional wild animal. Their diet provides them with more nutrition than you could even imagine. In a day, they consume over 100 grams of fibre (most Westerners get less than twenty nowadays), 600 milligrams of vitamin C (that’s the equivalent of nearly a dozen oranges), and plenty of calcium and vitamin E.

Based on those numbers, you would think the Paleo diet was onto something, hey? And when paleo advocates speak out against refined foods, they are on the right track! But then they go wrong…

Modern-day “paleo” dieters are often filling up on modern meat, which looks nothing (nutritionally speaking) like the prehistoric animals our paleolithic ancestors would have eaten. To begin with, it’s loaded with contaminants (according to a recent review in the Journal of the American Meat Science Association) like mercury, lead, arsenic, preservatives, and antibiotics.

It is impossible to follow a modern paleo diet without running huge risks from high consumption of mercury.

What’s more, modern paleo dieters often forget about that other part of our ancestors’ diet: the plants.

The real paleolithic diet had nothing to do with large portions of protein- and chemical-laden meat and fish.

No, wild heart. The real paleolithic diet was all about the plants. Whole, straight from the source, and packed with fibre.

And you know what? That’s the exact diet I recommend to you! Not only does this way of eating deliver all the nutrition our bodies need, it is also the ideal diet for healthy weight loss and maintenance.

It’s simple. It’s delicious. It’s yours. I’m here to support you along the way.

I’d love to hear from you, too. What benefits have you experienced from adding more whole plant foods into your diet so far? Does anyone you know follow the paleo diet? Share in the comments!

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Donna

Note: The photo I have here with this article is of Mary and I last year. She died later that year at 22 years old. She was rescued by FAR (Farm Animal Rescue). She was my first and many others first ever cow cuddle. She mattered and she is missed deeply. The day she passed I happened to run into some people who volunteer at FAR, they were absolutely devastated at the loss.

When Donna was 12 years old, she had a dream to be a dancer and have a house on a property with some happy cows. However, this was the year that doctors diagnosed her with juvenile arthritis and began medicating her for the pain. At 17 years of age, she visited specialists who diagnosed her with chronic rheumatoid arthritis in her entire body and said she would be crippled by the time she was just 22. By then, she had spent her life training to be a professional dancer, however, had become 13 kilograms overweight and directionless.

Donna believes that animal cruelty is wrong and personally suffers when she sees the way humans treat animals, she has worked tirelessly for a decade to empower people and families to eat in alignment with their belief- cruelty-free.

Today, Donna is a Mum of a four-year-old, a Nutritionist, a popular plant-based health and lifestyle author and an Australian Latin Dance Champion. She is completely free of arthritis, pain, and medication.

With her experience transitioning from a meat-eating to vegetarian, to vegan, to purely plant-based diet, and with the tens of thousands of hours she’s put into learning about nutrition and human bodies, Donna has gone just as deep into the ethics behind what we eat which is how she came to found this charity.

Til The Cows Come Home is a charity that aims to be the World Vision for livestock animals, on a mission to rescue animals that are too sick or injured to make it to slaughter and re-home them to a sanctuary to live a full and happy life, just as Donna imaged as a child.

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